Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...

Like Salt Man 1, all of the remains were remarkably well-preserved by the salt that surrounded them. The lack of oxygen deep ...

His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the ...

Human and animal remains and footprints dating back 26,000 years have been discovered during a £844 million construction ...

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

Archaeologists found a pit full of giant dismembered hands near an ancient Egyptian king's palace, hinting that warriors may have offered the king the hands of their defeated enemies as trophies.

About 4,600 years ago, ancient Egyptian laborers built the Great Pyramid of Giza one stone at a time. Nearby was the Khufu ...

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital, writes David Tresilian ...